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Prufrock: Dirty Dens pad to go quietly for a real cool price

STRUGGLING to find an original Christmas present? Look no further. For a cool $28m (£16m) you could be the proud owner of disgraced ex-Tyco chief Dennis Kozlowski’s apartment.

Exquisitely positioned on the tenth and eleventh floors of 950 Fifth Avenue, the smartest part of New York’s exclusive street, the apartment boasts 12 impossibly opulent rooms, including the bathroom that housed the famous $6,000 shower curtain.

Kozlowski snapped up the flat for $18m just three years ago, but it was seized when the conglomerate he had spent his life building collapsed with spectacular debts. It has since come to epitomise the extent to which the chief executive was looting from Tyco’s coffers. But it was only one item in a long list that included yachts, customised motorbikes and millions of dollars worth of art that was purchased with the $600m of profits that Kozlowski allegedly removed from the company balance sheet